hackett.com website review

13 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (728 KiB).

2 images could be 179 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.0 s faster on a phone.

About 279 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 750 ms faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 73. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

The page has 1,780 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

Polyfills for old browsers add 10 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

6 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 142 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Cookiebot, Cloudflare and Trust Pilot and others), adding 181 KiB and 61 ms of main-thread time.

About 16 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

8 KiB could be saved by minifying JavaScript.

Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

Your largest element takes 6.3 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide s…”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 8.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Real visitors wait 2.5 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 243 ms to 346 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Real visitors wait 1.1 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 216 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.5 s to 3.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

1 image is downloaded at several times the size a phone draws it, for example country-selector-mobile.jpg.jpg at 1,440 px wide, shown at 390 px. Resized copies would save about 45 KiB.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.32 g of CO₂e: 38.8 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 dropdowns have no label.

1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 10 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

3 form fields have no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

Your title is only 23 characters: “Hackett – Official Site”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

A phone browser shows 649 words, but the HTML your server sends has only 32. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read that HTML without running JavaScript, so they see an almost empty page. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes it.

There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

Large scripts ship without source maps.

HSTS is set, but max-age is 30 days; one year is the recommended minimum.

No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

hackett.com has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

hackett.com's DNS answers are not signed. DNSSEC stops attackers forging them to send visitors or email elsewhere; most registrars switch it on in a click, though most sites still run without it.

No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

The homepage carries about 649 words of visible text.

Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads and Google Analytics (measured from a US location before any click). A consent tool (Cookiebot) is installed; check it blocks these until visitors agree where the law requires it.

Opening the homepage sets 2 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.